Q: What one thing would you like readers to know about you?
A: That I really like to hear from readers, and I answer everything I receive. (Contact me through my website or Facebook.)
Q: What is the craziest, most risk-taking thing you’ve ever done?
A: I kind of hate to admit this, because it was a ridiculous thing to do and I’d never, never do it now, but long ago my former husband and I, along with our toddler, hitch-hiked from Florida to Colorado.
Q: Tell me three things about yourself that would surprise your readers.
A: I’m 4’11” tall, even shorter than my “little old lady” heroine Ivy. I was born on an Indian reservation and am a member of the tribe. When I first married, all I knew how to cook were brownies.
Q: Would you tell us about your current book release Desert Dead, Book #3 in the Mac ‘n’ Ivy Mysteries series?
A: Seniors Ivy and Mac are happily anticipating their delayed honeymoon in Baja. Beaches, romance, sunshine! But a panicky phone call from old friend Magnolia changes everything. Magnolia has found—and then lost!—a dead body in a desert ghost town.
Ivy and Mac decide it won’t take long to make a side trip to Arizona to help out their friend. But it turns into a trip that’s more than searching for a missing body, and Ivy and Mac find themselves deep into mystery and mayhem. With a killer who intends to put them into the category of the missing dead.
Q: Where did this idea come from?
A: Ivy’s friend Magnolia has always been a bit aghast at Ivy’s tendency to get involved with murder and killers, so I wondered how she’d feel if she just happened to find a dead body.
Lorena McCourtney
My early interest was in riding and raising horses, not writing. Somewhere in the back of my mind was the idea that if those goals didn’t work out, I could always be a writer. A later thought was, perhaps I’d be a writer and make a bundle of money so I could reach those horse goals.
Wrong on all counts! By the time I figured out that what I really wanted to be was a writer, I found it was considerably more difficult than I realized. And making a “bundle of money”? Forget it!
I wrote several hundred short stories for children and then adults before I ever got into writing book-length novels. I then wrote quite a few romance novels before finding my way into what I’m most happy doing now: writing mystery novels with a foundation of faith and a lighthearted dash of fun.
I live in Southern Oregon with husband Jim. I have a son, a granddaughter, and the latest addition is great-grandson Aiden. (Does anyone ever expect to get to great-grandma age? I didn’t!) My next goal is to get to actually meet Aiden, because they live far away from us.
